Sharif Zaggoot

Sharif Zaggoot (1972-29 August 2008) was a Hamas leader.

Biography
Sharif Zaggoot was born in 1972 in the Jabalia refugee camp to a family of Sunni Muslim Palestinians originally from Ashdod in Israel. His father taught him Islamic virtues, so he loved rightness and hated injustice. He gained a diploma in institutions management from Al-Aqsa University and had three sons and two daughters with his wife. In 1990 he joined the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas to resist Israel, and he fought in the Operation Days of Wrath war of 17 days in Jabalia and dug tunnels for Hamas. On 29 August 2008 he died of cardiac arrest after leaving a mosque and walking with military friends.